AHMEDABAD: Congress has suffered a major setback ahead of the elections for four vacant Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat. On Thursday, two party MLAs resigned, while 31 MLAs are also expected to resign. Elections are to be held on June 19 for 4 seats. A day before, some Congress MLAs met Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy CM Nitin Patel, whom they described as discussing Corona.
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According to sources, Karjan seat MLA Akshay Patel has resigned, while MLA Jitu Chowdhary from Kaprada is no longer in touch with the party. The party is assuming that he too has resigned. Another MLA is also expected to resign. A leader of the All India Congress Committee said that if BJP can do such things in other states, then Gujarat is their home ground.
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This time, 4 seats in Rajya Sabha are vacant in Gujarat. The BJP has 103 MLAs in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Congress has 68 MLAs, 2 of the Tribal Party of India (BTP) and one of the NCP. To win one seat of Rajya Sabha, 35.01 votes will be required. Till now the Congress was considering its number as 71 with 2 BTP MLAs and one Independent. In this way she was dreaming of winning 2 seats easily. On the other hand, BJP will need 106 MLAs to win 3 seats. This means that the BJP will need 3 more votes to win all three of its candidates.